Monday, 2 April 2007

IBM Steps Up Campaign Against Red Hat's JBoss Server

IBM is increasing its labours to entice users its open source server software. The company has rolled out a tool designed to help businesses replace Red Hat's open source JBoss application server with IBM's WebSphere Community Edition application server.

WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Community Edition, IBM's open source application server software based on Apache Geronimo is gaining share nearly three times as fast as rival JBoss, as per a research report. According to Evans Data Corporation, in a single year WebSphere Application Server Community Edition gained 16 points of market share with Eclipse developers, versus only a 6.6 share gain for JBoss.

"WebSphere Application Server Community Edition enables customers and Business Partners to tap the low cost of entry of open source technology to quickly develop and deploy applications," said Robert LeBlanc, general manager, IBM WebSphere. "With more than 250,000 downloads in less than six months, WAS Community Edition is gaining momentum with customers of all sizes and industries."

IBM ventured into the open source application server market in 2005 with its acquisition of Gluecode Software.